Beautiful graphics. Brilliant puzzles. A haunting soundtrack. The timeless adventure Myst appealed to seasoned players and non-gamers alike when it debuted in the early 1990s, selling millions of copies and redefining a genre.

Optimised for Mac with Apple silicon, this version of Myst recaptures everything that made the original a classic while adding spectacular new features – and even a new age.

Here’s why you should travel back to this perfectly puzzling world.

The game’s foundation remains the same: a magical book transports you to a mysterious island, which you explore to uncover clues about the fate of the book’s creator, Atrus, and his sons, Sirrus and Achenar. That’s easier said than done, as the world is filled with ingenious puzzles – some simple, some maddeningly challenging – that you must solve to access other areas and discover new lands.

Myst has been meticulously reconstructed using a real-time 3D engine for dramatically improved modelling, textures and dynamic lighting effects. Details such as rippling water and gently swaying trees and grass – as well as enhanced audio – make the experience more immersive than ever.

While the original Myst confined you to largely static, pre-drawn sets, you can now explore with full freedom of movement. Already solved the game back in the day? A new Puzzle Randomization mode lets you experience the game in a whole new way.

The game has also been optimised for Mac with Apple silicon for smooth motion at 4K resolution. And if you have a Mac with the M3 or M4 chip, Myst supports ray tracing for gameplay that’s even more realistic.

Forget scrawling notes to solve puzzles – the latest version of Myst lets you capture in-game photos of important scenes and hints. And capture you should: from the wording of sentences in a book to seemingly random images scattered throughout the game, everything is there for a reason. You never know when something you saw hours earlier will hold the key – sometimes literally – to a puzzling task.